two similar-sized banks operating in the Netherlands in the 1920s: the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche … Bankvereeniging. Whilst the first escaped the crisis relatively unscathed, the second required assistance from the Nederlandsche Bank …, the Dutch central bank. A new and detailed narrative of one episode of the crisis using as yet unused primary sources is …

, centralbanks have made extensive use of both new and existing toolsfor supplying central bank money to financial institutions …

uncertainty about participants along the chains. This action has been taken before: the Bank Holiday of 1933, declared byPresident … Franklin Delano Roosevelt, resolved uncertaintyabout the health of individual banks by using bank inspectionsto publicly …

bankingindustry. This goal is served by taking a broad view of thepayments business and analyzing information provided bylarge bank …

length of time between bank examinations affects thequality of information available to supervisors. For thesepurposes, we … condition of a bank. Our analysisassumes that examination information incorporates twotypes of data: information available from … information that can be obtained onlythrough on-site examinations, such as confidential informationabout a bank’s troubled assets …